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Lauren Schenkman for Inside Science News Service reports that physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli at Boston University have declared a speed limit on computing, no matter how small components get.

Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized “nuclear battery” that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes.
As radioactive substances decay, they release charged particles that when properly harvested can create an electrical current.
Nuclear batteries have been in use for military and aerospace applications, but are typically far larger.
The University of Missouri team says that the batteries hold [...]

The smart money is on those who understand that this really only applies to the class of PC users who actually give a damn about which OS is running on their system. Sadly, at present, thats a tiny fraction of users. People use what they are given or what they used in school or at the office. Those of us who shuttle back and forth between multiple OS’s or even multiple incarnations of the same OS will continue to do what we always have and select the best tool for the job.

As more people use iTunes to download TV shows and movies or as people do more video editing the size of the files they work with get biggr and bigger. Ext4 addresses this problem and keeps Linux ahead of the curve for users who need to work with lots and lots of data.

There is a huge shortage of police and prosecutor office staff who truly understand how things like e-mail, websites, and peer-to-peer networks work in the United States and probably other countries as well. To be honest, it is kind of amusing to me watching people talk about Internet technologies when they don’t really understand it. I was raised down south and still can’t bring myself to correct my “elders”.